"Billions of pounds of investment, years of engineering works and now, the moment of truth. On 14 December a revamped railway timetable goes live across Britain, with the biggest fanfare and radical changes for the east coast mainline, where passengers are promised more train services, faster journeys and a new era of reliability."
"LNER, the leading intercity operator on the line from London to Scotland, will have 60,000 extra seats a week in total, and cut the fastest journey times from the UK capital to Edinburgh to shortly over four hours, and to Leeds to a little over two, with six instead of five trains an hour out of Kings Cross most of the day."
"The railway still bears the scars of seven years ago, when no one pulled the alarm cord before a similarly sweeping timetable change, despite what became retrospectively evident: just how unprepared and ill-equipped the railway was to deliver the new services. Overrunning track works in the north eventually led to has"
A revamped UK railway timetable goes live on 14 December, with radical changes on the east coast mainline promising more services, faster journeys and improved reliability. LNER will add 60,000 seats weekly, shorten fastest London–Edinburgh trips to just over four hours, and run six trains per hour from Kings Cross. TransPennine Express, East Midlands, Northern, Greater Anglia and Thameslink will add services or tweak routes. More than £4bn has been invested in track and trains over the last decade. The overhaul faced multiple postponements amid readiness concerns and recalls the disruptive May 2018 timetable failure.
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